Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > 1098 ! is this it ???

[keefer]

Originally Posted by Sharpy G

whaddya think ?

awesome
hope its like that in the end
at least they have got back to some proper head lights
instead of some deep holes left in the fairing
Roll on Milan

[GsxrAge]

Apart from the seat unit I think that looks great!!!


Age

[Stones]

Someone has been busy with photoshop again.... The front looks wrong! And from the sneaky pics seen already the tail unit looks to 'wide' on this mock up.... Hurry up Milan so we can all find out the truth!

[TP]

Ducati must be wetting themselves looking at threads like this on the various Ducati forums around the place!



Hello Ducati give us a decent bike to aspire to ya bastids!

[Dave G]

Its a fireblade!
I thought Honda made those

[Sharpy G]

got these, look genuine enuff !!??

[TP]

They look better actually, that bike doesn't look too bad.

Shades of MV in the tail lights and that swingarm looks like you could hold up a bank wielding it!

[Rod]

Originally Posted by Sharpy G

got these, look genuine enuff !!??

Damn you beat me to it, I am pretty sure these are it. Looks very similar to the spy photos we have seen and if it is the new 1098, I like it. Still remains to be seen if this is 100% accurate but I dont think it is far off the mark. Who ever leaked these is going to be a marked man / woman by Ducati (horse's heads and all that!!)

[VanDaMauler]

Originally Posted by Sharpy G

got these, look genuine enuff !!??

Now thats more like it...

That looks the business and I cant wait to see it in the flesh...

[BigJohn999]

So - is this it?

Pics look genuine - as though they've been scanned from an already printed brochure or press release - someone's had to produce exhibition panels and press packs in advance for next week's launch I expect - so probably a genuine leak.

I think it all looks good. I just hope the tank holds more than the 999 and us big blokes can fit it.

Dual headlights - I hope they're better than the 748/916 ones, especially on dip.

They've gone back to 916-ish curves rather than follow the chiselled 999 look (the KTM has already taken that to the next stage - yum).

On the whole, it will be enough to make me enquire on PX value on a 2002 999bp (sweet FA I expect), but don't get me wrong, I like the 999 and it was actually a braver move to launch it than to launch the 1098.

Here's looking forward to next Tuesday....